Author_Institution :
Dept. of Marketing & Logistic, China Univ. of Technol., Hsinchu, Taiwan
Abstract :
Electronic business is the term, which covers various aspects of different business activities, like CRM, SCM, ERP, ECOM, MCOM and based on the universally accepted networked environment of today´s fast paced changing technological era. The power, which remained with the sellers before the advent of Internet, has now shifted to the buyers because of the umpteen choices available due to the Internet, which made every organization ubiquitous. The commonality of IT literacy around the world has inspired the organization to have Web existence and offer what they have in any where of the world. The technology has brought lots of miraculous facilities, which has relaxed the customers from very complicated traditional methods. There is lots of research has been conducted on the topic but still some room available on empirical and theoretical electronic business aspects which are marginally touched upon in this paper. The type of the research in this paper is basic and more towards exploratory nature based on the literature survey, interviews (structured & unstructured) from top-notch executives of national & multinational organizations, email interviews and inquiries from different IT and electronic business domain companies. The paper consists of five sections in general: first is about the introduction, concepts and definitions, second part focuses on the electronic business and its similar level of categories. This will cover the Ebusiness, Ecom innovations, cases and technological facilities. Third is regarding the relevance of some aspects based on technological patterns. Fourth is about the futuristic perspective of the topic, its complications and benefits. Fifth is followed by the conclusions, recommendations, some important key words, references and bibliography.
Keywords :
Internet; electronic commerce; Ebusiness; Ecom innovations; Internet; e-phenomena; electronic business; faster IT trends; organizational success evaluation; Bibliographies; Companies; Consumer electronics; Enterprise resource planning; Hydrogen; Internet; Logistics; Performance gain; Technological innovation;